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This Clinton Presidential Library release is a folder of White House email records dated September 27, 1995 to November 25, 1998, filed under the subject heading UFO, Flying Saucer, Flying Object. It holds forwarded news items: a molester who posed as a space alien, Hillary Clinton comparing the Whitewater probe to a UFO obsession, a report on Philip Corso's Roswell book, a satirical Mars Air Force story, and a Swissair report of a near miss with an unidentified object. Withdrawal sheets show that two pager messages were redacted for personal privacy.
Page 1 of 2 (ALL-IN-1 MAIL)RECORD TYPE: PRESIDENTIAL CREATOR: Kyle M. Baker ( BAKER_K ) (WHO) CREATION DATE/TIME:10-APR-1997 16:24:23.82 SUBJECT: FIRST LADY COMPARES WHITEWATER PROBE WITH UFO FIXATION ( gankalSaol.com@INET ) ( ckparkocei.netSINET ) WASHINGTON (AP) TO: Remote Addressee READ:NOT READ TO: Remote Addressee READ:NOT READ AP^S Email System TEXT: Date: 04/10/97 Time: 15:13 MFirst lady compares Whitewater probe with UFO fixation Hillary Rodham Clinton denied Thursday that administration officials tried to silence a key Whitewater figure and said the long investigation reminds her of "some people's obsession with UFOs and the Hale-Bopp comet.'' President Clinton threw back his head and laughed when he heard about his wife's cosmic comparison. "Did she say that?'' he asked. "That's pretty good. ' ' Publicly addressing the question of hush money for the first time, Mrs. Clinton rejected suggestions that White House officials hoped to discourage Webb Hubbell from talking to Whitewater investigators by helping him find work after he resigned from the Justice Department under an ethical cloud in 1994. "There isn't anything to be hushed up,'' she said on WAMU's ''Diane Rehm Show.'' Mrs. Clinton, who was a law partner of Hubbell's in Arkansas, said he was "somebody who people wanted to help to get through what they thought was a rough patch in his life.'' Hubbell has acknowledged lying to President Clinton and telling him that there was no basis for charges against him. He later pleaded guilty to bilking his former law firm and its clients of hundreds of thousands of dollars and agreed to assist Whitewater prosecutors. In recent interviews, Hubbell has said he is sorry for deceiving the Clintons, his longtime friends. "I accept his apology,'' Clinton said Thursday during a Cabinet Room photo session. "I'm not angry at him anymore because he paid a very high price for the mistake he made.'' Mrs. Clinton, in her radio interview, said she hoped to meet with Hubbell at some point, but added that for now, "if I were to see him, the conspiracy buffs would go wild and no telling what they would claim.'' Frustrated by Hubbell's memory lapses in the probe of the Clintons' finances, prosecutors are investigating whether the financial assistance he got after resigning was designed to improperly influence his cooperation. ''There's no evidence of that,'1 Mrs. Clinton said. "There will not be any evidence of that.'' The president last week said there was nothing improper in the effort to steer work to Hubbell, characterizing it as an act of compassion. The first lady went on to dismiss the notion of hush money as "part of the continuing saga of Whitewater, you know, the never-ending fictional conspiracy that, honest to goodness, reminds me of some people's obsession with UFOs and the Hale-Bopp comet
Official release, from the nara collection. The PDF is mirrored here; the original link is above. 19 pages are in the text index: search them above, or from the library's search.